Visor cap or hat having foldable bill

ABSTRACT

A visor cap includes a rear piece for attaching to heads of users, and a visor portion for shielding sun shine. The visor portion includes an outer covering, and an inner flexible sheet member engaged in the outer covering and made of high density poly ethylene, to allow the visor portion to be folded to and retained in various contours. The outer covering is preferably made of cloth materials. The high density poly ethylene for making said flexible sheet member includes a melting point ranged between 110-140° C., and includes a density ranged between 0.950 and 0.97 g/cm 3 , and includes a consistency no less than 99.8%.

The present invention is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 10/998,375, filed 29 Nov. 2004, pending and to beabandoned.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a visor cap or a hat, and moreparticularly to a visor cap or a hat having a foldable bill portion orvisor portion arranged for allowing the bill portion to be easily foldedand retained in various kinds of shapes or configuration or contourseven when the force is removed from the bill or visor portion.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Typical visor caps comprise a front piece or a bill or a visor portionfor shielding sun shine, and a rear piece or one or more fastener strapsor legs attached to the visor portion, for attaching the visor caps ontoheads of users. Normally, the front piece or bill or visor portion ofthe visor cap is formed of flexible and bendable sheet material, such aspaper, plastic or other semi-rigid or self supporting material, and thevisor portion or bill of the typical visor caps may not be folded andretained in various kinds of shapes or configuration or contours.

For allowing the visor portion or bill to be folded and retained invarious kinds of shapes or configuration or contours, one example of thetypical visor caps has been disclosed and comprises a front piece orbill or visor portion having two or more bill sections that are hingedlyattached or coupled together for allowing the bill sections to be foldedrelative to each other.

For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,804,831 to Guerra discloses a typical visorcap comprising a visor bill having two or more bill portions made ofplastic or synthetic materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene ornumerous other polymeric materials, and the bill portions are hingedlyattached or coupled together for allowing the bill portions to be foldedrelative to each other.

However, the synthetic materials include a nature having a sufficientmemory to return to its first configuration after the force is removedfrom the bill portions, such that the bill portions will return to itsfirst configuration when the force is removed, and thus may not beretained in the other different configuration, and such that the visorportion or the bill may not be folded and retained in various kinds ofshapes or configuration or contours.

The present invention has arisen to mitigate and/or obviate theafore-described disadvantages of the conventional visor portions for thevisor caps.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a visor capor a hat including a foldable bill or visor portion arranged forallowing the bill to be easily folded and retained in various kinds ofshapes or configuration or contours even when the force is removed fromthe bill or visor portions.

In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided avisor cap comprising a rear piece for attaching to heads of users, and avisor portion for shielding sun shine. The visor portion includes anouter covering, and an inner flexible sheet member engaged in the outercovering and made of high density poly ethylene, to allow the visorportion to be folded to and retained in various contours. The outercovering is preferably made of cloth materials. The high density polyethylene for making said flexible sheet member includes a melting pointranged between 110-140° C., and includes a density ranged between 0.950and 0.97 g/cm³, and includes a consistency no less than 99.8%.

Further objectives and advantages of the present invention will becomeapparent from a careful reading of the detailed description providedhereinbelow, with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a visor cap or a hat in accordance withthe present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial cross sectional view of the hat or visor cap; and

FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are perspective views similar to FIG. 1,illustrating the other arrangements of the visor cap or the hat.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Referring to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1 and 2, a visor capor hat 2 in accordance with the present invention comprises a rear orhat piece 20 (FIGS. 1 and 3-8) or one or more fastener straps or legs 20(FIG. 9) for attaching the visor cap 2 onto heads of users, and a frontpiece or bill or visor portion 21 attached to the rear piece 20 forshielding sun shine.

The visor portion 21 of the visor cap 2 includes an outer covering 22made of such as woven or non-woven cloth materials, and includes aninsert or an inner flexible sheet member 23 engaged in the outercovering 22. For example, the flexible sheet member 23 is preferablymade of high density poly ethylene (HDPE) that is flexible and may befolded to and retained in various kinds of shapes or configuration orcontours, as shown in FIGS. 3-9, even when the force is removed from thebill or visor portion.

The high density poly ethylene (HDPE) material for making or forming theflexible sheet member 23 that may be folded to and retained in variouskinds of shapes or configuration or contours is neutral and is stableunder the room temperature and will not be resolved in water, andincludes a melting point ranged between 110-140° C., and includes adensity ranged between 0.950 and 0.97 g/cm³, and includes a consistencygreater than or equal to or no less than 99.8%.

The high density poly ethylene (HDPE) material is selected from orformed by particles having a diameter of about ⅛ inch, and the particleshaving the melting point ranged between 110-140° C., and having thedensity ranged between 0.950 and 0.97 g/cm³, and having the consistencyno less than 99.8% will be heated and melted to form and to make theflexible sheet member 23 that may be folded to and retained in variouskinds of shapes or configuration or contours even when the force isremoved from the bill or visor portion.

The prior hats or visor caps do not have a visor portion or a bill thatis made of other high density poly materials and that may be folded toand retained in various kinds of shapes or configuration or contours,according to the users' requirement or interest after the force isremoved from the bill or visor portion.

Accordingly, the visor cap in accordance with the present inventionincludes a foldable bill having a flexible sheet member providedtherein, and arranged for allowing the bill to be easily folded andretained in various kinds of shapes or configuration or contours eventhe force is removed from the bill portion or visor portion.

Although this invention has been described with a certain degree ofparticularity, it is to be understood that the present disclosure hasbeen made by way of example only and that numerous changes in thedetailed construction and the combination and arrangement of parts maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of theinvention as hereinafter claimed.

1. A visor cap comprising: a rear piece for attaching to heads of users,and a visor portion for shielding sun shine, and said visor portionincluding an outer covering made of cloth material, and an innerflexible sheet member engaged in said outer covering and made of highdensity poly ethylene, to allow said visor portion to be folded to andretained in various contours, said high density poly ethylene for makingsaid flexible sheet member including a melting point ranged between110-140° C., and including a density ranged between 0.950 and 0.97g/cm³, and including a consistency no less than 99.8%.